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Please stop buying taxidermied bats online
“These bats were hunted.”
It’s a wild animal trade that has flown under the radar and that poses risks to the bats and potentially to the people who handle them, according to a study recently published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research. “We have strict policies and guidelines in place to regulate the listing of animal products on our platform and promote the protection of wildlife,” eBay spokesperson Scott Overland says in an email to The Verge. If there can just be that connection to realize that what you see and think is probably cool in front of you — there is a whole life that it was living.” Bats also play important roles in the wild, like dispersing seeds, pollinating plants, and controlling pest populations.
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